# The best show I'm assuming you aren't watching: Bob's Burgers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 27, 2012, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-show-im-assuming-you-arent-watching-bobs-burgers/616959 "2012-03-27T17:08:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![magnusblitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@magnusblitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magnusblitz)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-show-im-assuming-you-arent-watching-bobs-burgers/616959/21 "2012-03-28T05:58:26Z")
Wasn’t this the show people were saying was absolutely terrible and would be canceled within 5 episodes? They must’ve really ramped up the quality. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-show-im-assuming-you-arent-watching-bobs-burgers/616959/22 "2012-03-28T06:01:13Z")
Not really. It eventually did get its feet under itself, and it’s better than Family Guy or the Cleveland Show, but it’s still not great, just worth a smile or a chuckle more often than not, and a good laugh once or twice an episode. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-show-im-assuming-you-arent-watching-bobs-burgers/616959/23 "2012-03-28T13:01:08Z")
_Feh_. I watched the first two or three episodes, didn’t care for it, never tried it again. Just not my cup of tea. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-show-im-assuming-you-arent-watching-bobs-burgers/616959/24 "2012-03-28T13:17:08Z")
> [@magnusblitz](#): > > Wasn’t this the show people were saying was absolutely terrible and would be canceled within 5 episodes? They must’ve really ramped up the quality. You may be thinking of one of the other dozen-or-so shows FOX has tried slipping into its Sunday night Animation Domination block. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-show-im-assuming-you-arent-watching-bobs-burgers/616959/25 "2012-03-28T13:21:04Z")
My feelings are pretty much the same as **Eve** ’s. I don’t see the genius in it. Pepper Mill can’t stand this show. ---
**Author:** ![iamnotbatman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/858c86/32.png) [@iamnotbatman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamnotbatman)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-show-im-assuming-you-arent-watching-bobs-burgers/616959/26 "2012-03-28T15:12:03Z")
Same here. Watched the first two episodes, and thought it was mediocre. Then again, one of my favorite shows at the moment is _Delocated_, so maybe I’m not one to judge. ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-show-im-assuming-you-arent-watching-bobs-burgers/616959/27 "2012-03-28T15:31:01Z")
What universe did I wake up in? GF and I watched an episode once and wrote it off as the worst piece of dreck regurgitated by television in recent memory. ---
**Author:** ![Mavis\_Topholese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7feea3/32.png) [@Mavis\_Topholese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mavis_Topholese)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-show-im-assuming-you-arent-watching-bobs-burgers/616959/28 "2012-03-28T16:45:23Z")
Loved HOME MOVIES, love BOB’S BURGERS. I can remember being on the fence about the show, but the episode where Bob’s trapped in the crawlspace kind of sold me. I think public opinion of BOB’S BURGERS was on the iffy side, and then everybody got to see ALLEN GREGORY, and suddenly BOB’S BURGERS became _much_ better. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-show-im-assuming-you-arent-watching-bobs-burgers/616959/29 "2012-03-28T17:27:21Z")
> [@pravnik](#): > > I guess it either speaks well of the show or poorly of me that I never noticed that until you pointed it out. 🙂 If it makes you feel any better, I didn’t either. The pilot was … pretty bad, actually. But they ramped it the _hell_ up from there, and I’ll just go over to the Jon/Kristen lovefest area of this thread now. Oh - I saw a mom with two daughters on a walk the other day. The younger one was wearing the same bunny-ear hat thingamajig that Schaal’s character has, and I about pissed myself laughing. ---
**Author:** ![Rattlehead02](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rattlehead02/32/3944_2.png) [@Rattlehead02](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rattlehead02)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-show-im-assuming-you-arent-watching-bobs-burgers/616959/30 "2012-03-28T18:11:30Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > I think you mean Coach McGurk. I think you mean that lay-about, Benjamin Katz 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-show-im-assuming-you-arent-watching-bobs-burgers/616959/31 "2012-03-28T18:19:34Z")
I agree with those who find it hard to watch due to Archer’s voice coming out of someone else’s mouth. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-show-im-assuming-you-arent-watching-bobs-burgers/616959/32 "2012-03-28T20:19:10Z")
Watched it a couple of times - got turned off by the whining of the older daughter. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-show-im-assuming-you-arent-watching-bobs-burgers/616959/33 "2012-03-29T00:53:48Z")
I think it’s just Ok (like American Dad). I leave it on (unlike Cleveland) but don’t rush back into the room after the commercial (Simpsons/Family Guy). I’ve noticed some things about the kids: The younger daughter is a mix of Bart’s troublemaking and Stewie’s older-then-he-looks doomsday planning. The son is Bobby from King of the Hill. The older daughter is Meg. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-show-im-assuming-you-arent-watching-bobs-burgers/616959.md?page=1)